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| Breg, Breaca, Braith, Berrach, Braciaca (Freckled Trout) Brac (Malt) Brígid ní Dubhthach, Bricia ní Cass Cualigne, Brighid bhoidheach (Bride the Beautiful, Bride of the White Hills) Brí Betach (Power) Bríga (Rising) Berched (The Exalted One) Caelestis Brigantia [Bó + Righinn + Dia] (Slender Cow Goddess) Britomartis, Matres Brittae (The Three Blessed Ladies of Britain) Bréothigernd (Flame Lady) Breo-Saighit (Fiery Arrow) Brisen, Brisane, Briallen (Primrose) Adsuelta, Sulevia, Sulis, Sulgwenn (Shining Sun) Solusbrethnach (Shining Dawn) Ffraid, Fintigernd (Fair One) Alarch Leamhain (Swan of Leamhain) Griffin of Gabhran, Lady of the Shores, Lady of Durlas, Aíbell (Most Beautiful) Triduana (Three Elements) Uasal (Noble) Bann Uasal (Noble Woman) Brighid, The Good Shepherdess, presides over the cradle of the new born infant. It is a common practise for the women of the Isles to hang rowan [red alder] crosses over their cradles whilst reciting a charm or prayer to Brighid to invoke her protection. The nine fold blessing is given to new borns as baptism. The child is passed across flames three times, carried round flames three times, before recieving the water baptism: A small wave for your form Sisters: Bláithnet, Caoimhe, Finnuala, Meabal, Mell, Meng, Scothniamh & Bóann. Brigid, excellent woman, sudden flame, may the bright fiery sun take us to the lasting kingdom. Briseis, whose real name was Hippodamïa, was the daughter of Brisês, brother of the priest Chrysês. She was the concubine of Achillês; but when Achillês bullied Agamemnon for not giving Chryseïs to her father, who offered a ransom for her, Agamemnon turned upon him and said he would let Chryseïs go, but should take Briseis instead.—Homer: Iliad, i. A Dé, a mo ruri-sea | (pron. BREE-jihd, BREE-hit, BREED, BREE, BREE-guh, BREE-ahl-len, SOOL-gwen, OO-a-sal) Celtic sun goddess of ale, healing springs, fertility - cows never go dry, poetry, inspiration, marriage & Edinburgh who plucked out her eyes rather than submit to the advances of Nechtan: Descendant of the Waters, King of the Picts. She and her brother the Daghda: Good Good were born as acorns from Bel: The Sacred Oak when he was fertilized by Ainu: Water from Heaven. She is the goddess of the three suns of the seasons. She has golden brown or yellow hair, wears a green mantle, carries a harp and can take the form of a white swan. Her mantle is magical and heals all afflictions. She can be seen hanging it to dry on a sunbeam. At age 9 She took the jewels from the King of Leinster’s sword and sold them for food. Third wife of Fionn Mac Cumhail: White God. She lives in a castle on a lake and takes the form of a white trout. Her brother is Brendan: Navigator. In the Legend of Cong: White Trout she was caught and put into a frying pan by a blackguard, but however many times he turned the fish he could not brown it. Finally when he cut the fish in frustration with a knife, the white trout turned into the beautiful goddess dressed in white, with a band of gold in her hair and a stream of blood running down her arm. She threatened to turn him into a pinkeen for the rest of his days and hunt him down in the river if he did not reform. He reformed and she turned back into a trout and he placed her back in the river. Her virgin priestesses at Cille Daire / Kildare: Church of the Oak called Ceills / Kelles: Preservers of Fire tended a sacred fire never allowed to burn out. There were 19 of them to symbolize the Celtic Great Year. They are called Igheav Andagha: Daughters of the Fire. St. Breaca: Freckled Trout traveled from Kildare, Ireland, to Cornwall where two churches, Breage, are named for her. Known as the most generous women of her time in Ireland. Wherever she steps flowers and clovers grow. Her sacred plant is the red alder and the scallop shell. February 1st, Lá Fheill Brighid: Brigid’s Festival / Imbolc: To Purify Oneself, a Celtic fertility day where she kindles fire in the Earth [fire-in-water], preparing the way for Spring. Fires are blessed Women gather and make an image of her as a white Maiden with a crystal over her heart. She is placed in a basket. Straw crosses made of rushes are hung on the door. Brigit’s white serpent comes out of the mound in which it hibernates, and it’s behavior is thought to determine the length of the remaining period of frost. Fion Sméar :Blackberry Wine is drunk to the health of Saint Brigid and it promotes fertility. Betony is known in Welsh as St. Bride’s comb: Bishop’s flower and is used for the May Day fire. A bride is a name for the last sheaf of harvest wheat. Brighid the Two-Faced One. In legends is described as having one side of her face black and ugly, and the other white and beautiful. The Mystery of Bride is to be found in the annual transformation of the cailleach, the hag of winter, into the fair maiden of Spring. The augury of Brigid is called frith. Archaelogists have uncovered wooden carvings of afflicted body parts she was to heal. Her wailing after the death of her son Ruadán: Red Alder was the first keening. In Crete she is called Britomartis Tobar Bríde: Brideswell, Tír Breg: Brigid’s Isles, Bri Leith (Bri + consort Leith. pronounced BREE-LAY), Brigantia / Britain / Prydan, Brittany, Bregenz, St. Bridget’s Bush and Stone in Ballybuggy (45, 47, 48, 54, 58, 60, 63, 64, 71, 74, 76, 79,80, 84, 88, 89, 97, 105, 123)
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